send around

I got this same warning about a year ago. Then someone sent another
letter saying that there is no virus. I'm not sure it even exists.
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Tracey Guice '96-'97
Harvard-Radcliffe
On 13 Feb 1996, Cassandra Smith wrote:
> send around
>> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY There is a
> computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive
> an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read
> the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below.
> Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" nation
> wide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has
> a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it.
> Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
>> *******************************************************************
> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS
> *******************************************************************
>> The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of
> major importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a
> new computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE
> that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more
> well-known viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo"
> pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a
> warped mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC,
> is the fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer
> to be infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems
> of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one of several things
> can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will most
> likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's
> processor will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop
> -which can severely damage the processor if left running that way too
> long.
>> Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is
> happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means
> of detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always
> travels to new computers the same way in a text email message with
> the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy
> once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of
> loading the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good
> Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program is
> highly intelligent- it will send copies of itself to everyone whose
> e-mail address is contained in a receive-mail file or a sent-mail
> file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer
> it is running on. The bottom line there is - if you receive a file
> with the subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not read
> it" Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From" line was
> surely struck by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users
> of this newest threat to the Internet! It could save them a lot of
>>>>>>>>